The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 36

At last he said to the nobles and courtiers standing round: “I am determined to marry the Princess Helena, but how shall I do it?”

Who acts: king, courtiers · What happens: say, stand, be, marry, do · To what, where: nobles, last, Princess Helena, Helena · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, courtiers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 nobles	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nobles	det
7	nobles	noble	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 courtiers	cc
9	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 nobles	conj
10	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 courtiers	acl
11	round	round	ADV	_	10 standing	advmod
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 determined	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 determined	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 determined	nsubj
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 determined	cop
16	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 marry	mark
18	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 determined	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Helena	det
20	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Helena	compound
21	Helena	Helena	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 marry	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 do	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 do	cc
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 do	advmod
25	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 do	aux
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 do	nsubj
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 do	obj
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	27 do	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	king		the nobles and courtiers	last		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to noble=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stand	gerund	courtiers not said here				round property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	king				determined property	tree rules
4	marry in a quote	to-infinitive	king not said here	the Princess Helena				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helena=Patient
5	do in a quote	shall	king	Helena				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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